The Cuban Chargé to Acting Secretary of State Adee.

[Translation.]
No. 321.]

Excellency: In confirmation of the notice I had the honor to transmit orally to your excellency last evening, I advise you that on yesterday I received a cable message from my Government stating [Page 487] that it had issued a decree for the suspension of hostilities in the island on the part of the loyal forces, in the expectation that the revolutionists would do likewise, and directing me at the same time so to inform the Government of the United States.

I avail myself, etc.,

Arturo Padró y Almeida,
Chargé d’Affaires ad interim.

[Note.—Secretary of War Taft and Assistant Secretary of State Bacon proceeded to Cuba by direction of the President.]